Fifty years ago.............................

Apollo 11 communicates with Houston from the surface of the moon

Success.................................

..................................................................the old-fashioned way:

"Practice frugality. Work hard. Save and invest your money."

As agents of change go........................

.........................this guy has to be in the Top Ten.

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Ann Althouse has a very successful..............

...............................blog because she writes smart stuff:

That's all very interesting about the Electoral College, and if you read the whole article, you'll see a lot about polls about "approval" of Trump, which are used as a proxy for how people will vote. But in an election, you have to vote for one or another candidate (or abstain), and you might disapprove of all of them.

That is, withholding approval doesn't mean you won't vote for Trump. It's hard to approve of Trump. He's not exactly approval-seeking. You might like the results he's getting and still feel you want distance from him. You might vote for him because you want more of the same or because you think his opponent will take away some of the things you like and still be able to say that you "disapprove" of the person known as Trump.

True this..................................

"If you want to make a difference, you’ll probably need to find your own lane."

-just a sample of the daily wisdom Seth Godin offers for free

Awakenings.............................

On that day, the wind didn’t just blow around Johnson but through him, to a part of himself he previously didn’t know was there. He calls it a “baptism of spirit”: in that instant, he felt like his molecules were taken out, swirled with the air, and rearranged so that he’d forever be aligned with these environments and yearn for them. “I had no idea at the time it was going to be the most significant moment in my childhood,” Johnson says.

-Excerpted from this story, which led me to Sheldon Johnson's wikipedia page, where this quote was found:  "I facilitate astonishment. I didn't join the Park Service for money; I get paid in gasps."

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Fifty years ago...............At Woodstock

Sly & The Family Stone.............I Want To Take You Higher

Fifty years ago.....................At Woodstock

Canned Heat................................................Woodstock Boogie

History is tricky...................................

Ben Carlson offers an interesting and read-worthy perspective on the study of history.   Reminds me of Winston Churchill's comment that history was going to be kind to him, because he was going to write it.

As a side note:   Carlson is quite a bit younger than your faithful blogger - he wasn't around for Apollo 11 and the first man on the  moon, I was 17.   Going back through the mists of memory, what amazed me most wasn't that we beat the Russians in the Space game, or even the landing on the moon.  What amazed me was the getting back.  Some pretty smart people accomplished some really brave and remarkable feats.  They all deserve to be honored by history.

Fifty years ago..............At Woodstock

Canned Heat........................................A Change Is Gonna Come

News you can use......................

According to the National Weather Service, more than half of flood-related drownings take place after a vehicle has been driven into flood water. “A mere [six] inches of fast-moving flood water can knock over an adult,” the agency warns. Think your car is any safer? “It takes just 12 inches of rushing water to carry away most cars and just two feet of rushing water can carry away SUVs and trucks.”

-cut and pasted from here

A prerequisite for.....................

.................................successfully navigating the 21st Century:

"an immune boosting sense of humour."

-Nicholas Bate

Fifty years ago..................At Woodstock

Canned Heat.......................................Going Up The Country

Fifty years ago.........................

...........................................The launch of Apollo 11

Fifty years ago................At Woodstock

Canned Heat..................................................On The Road Again

I just know they were checking out our tiger lilies...

In (faint) praise of hippies..................

...........................Some of my best friends were hippies.  I wasn't much of one, although I did own a fabulous pair of rainbow bells.................

Some readers have asked me to elaborate on my perspective on youth culture now vs. the 1960s. To me, campus culture today seems idiotic. I think that the hippie culture of my youth also was idiotic, but it was not as aggressive. If you weren’t a hippie, the hippies didn’t try to shut you up or get you fired.

-Arnold S. Kling, as  he opens this blog post

Live (sort of) from the Rijksmuseum..........

Preparing to restore, publicly, Rembrandt's Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, also known as The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, aka The Night Watch:



The back story may be found here.

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Call it an investment.....................

When you've done well and another has benefited by it, why like a fool do you look for a third thing on top—credit for the good deed or a favor in return?

-Marcus Aurelius,  Meditations, Book 7:73

      So why on earth do you need thanks or recognition for having done the right thing?  It's your job.

-Ryan Holiday, from today's entry in The Daily Stoic

Fifty years ago.............At Woodstock

John Sebastian.......................................................I Had A Dream